Day and night tour

Chapter 26 There is something fishy going on underground
"Brother Zhou, you are my brother, please don't keep me in suspense. I am looking forward to completing the investigation of the case as soon as possible and handing it over to the investigation team."

Liu Tianen waited for Zhou Xuan's answer.

He has already followed Zhou Xuan's lead. This guy is very realistic. He will be enthusiastic towards whoever has ability, and he will never be vague about it.

Zhou Xuan raised his hand, with his index and middle fingers making a scissors shape.

Liu Tianen understood what he meant, took out a cigarette, put it firmly in Zhou Xuan's hand, and then struck a match to light the cigarette.

Zhou Xuan took a puff of cigarette and said, "Director Liu is wrong. If I answer your question, it doesn't mean the investigation is over, but the case is closed..."

"what?"

"I say, case closed!"

"..." Liu Tianen really wanted to scold Zhou Xuan - you are such a boaster, do you know how difficult it is to close a case in your brother Liu's bureau?

When investigating supernatural events, fox spirits and ghosts are mostly invisible and intangible, and are extremely ferocious. Solving the case is inherently more difficult than solving a normal case. In addition, the lack of strong evidence makes it impossible to close the case. Most files are shelved and treated as unsolved cases.

Now you say the case is closed?
Is the director your second uncle?
Although he had a lot to complain about, Liu Tianen was still respectful. Based on Zhou Xuan's performance just now, he really couldn't find any reason to doubt him.

"Then please give me some guidance and I will learn carefully." Liu Tianen was more flattering than Yu Zhengyuan at this moment.

"Old Liu, your question actually consists of two questions. First, why did Mr. Dai want to hold this blood sacrifice under the pretext of doing charity?"

"why?"

"He is a gentleman of Baiyun and a member of the Shan De Society. He held a blood sacrifice, which did bring him good luck. However, the bad reputation of his bloody sacrifice will spread out, which is equivalent to smearing the face of the gentleman of Baiyun. Afterwards, will the gentleman of Baiyun spare the family of the gentleman Dai?"

"But Mr. Dai's family moved to Mingjiang Mansion a few years ago, and only an old housekeeper remained in the huge Dai Mansion."

"He just moved to Mingjiang Mansion, he is not dead. The Baiyun gentleman is powerful, so it is not difficult for him to reach out to Mingjiang Mansion.

In order to protect his family from suffering, Mr. Dai had no choice but to build a plank road in the open and sneak through Chencang in secret. "

"In that case, Mr. Dai should have performed the blood sacrifice more secretly."

"can not do this."

Zhou Xuan said: "Firstly, he cannot complete this blood sacrifice alone. He needs at least one other person."

"Who?"

"Liu Jiaotian!"

"Is he also an accomplice of Mr. Dai?"

"What are you thinking about? Mr. Dai needs her voice." Zhou Xuan clearly remembered that it was after Liu Jiaotian's ghostly siren-like singing voice appeared that the one-eyed villagers who shared Mr. Dai's meal reacted for the first time.

he thinks,
Liu Jiaotian’s voice can be regarded as the real beginning of this blood sacrifice.

Liu Jiaotian is the most famous singer in Pingshui Prefecture.

There is no one else with such a unique voice in Pingshui Prefecture.

Mr. Dai needed Liu Jiaotian's voice, so he had to find Zhou's troupe to perform the ghost play. If he wanted to ask Liu Jiaotian to do the work alone and perform a blood sacrifice secretly, he dared to ask him, but Liu Jiaotian would not dare to accept the job.

Zhou Lingyi was sitting in the courtyard of the Zhou family.

My sister usually doesn't care much about the troupe because the people in the troupe don't do anything out of line, but taking jobs privately is a taboo in the industry. If she knew about this, then...

"Besides Liu Jiaotian, Mr. Dai has another reason why he cannot perform the sacrifice secretly.
His blood sacrifice needs to be performed here in the Corridor River, and the number of dead souls involved in the blood sacrifice ceremony is far more than you can imagine.

Director Liu, you should know the rules of sacrifice. The more souls are involved, the more difficult the sacrifice will be. The more lively the scene must be. If the scene is not lively, you won’t be able to summon so many souls.”

Zhou Xuan understood this rule through his own experience.

He was brought to Jingguo by the Zhou family's soul-calling ceremony. In that ceremony, only Zhou Lingyi, Grandpa, and Zushu played a role, but the ceremony itself employed dozens of people from the Zhou family to play supporting roles, just to make the scene more lively.

"The number of souls involved is far beyond my imagination? How many are there?"

"How many there are... you can dig it out yourself."

Zhou Xuan had unknowingly walked to the edge of the stage and pointed to the open space in front of the stage.

This open space was where Zhou Xuan first discovered the one-eyed villager, and it was also where the audience listened to the opera.

Zhou Xuan believed that those people from the one-eyed village did not come from other villages or towns.

He knew the way ghosts walked too well - after all, he had been a ghost.

The group of people from the one-eyed village were large in number. If they had come here in a large crowd from somewhere else, they would have been very conspicuous. Wouldn't Zhou Xuan have discovered them a long time ago?

Therefore, Zhou Xuan believed that the one-eyed villagers emerged from underground after the villagers who wanted to listen to the opera gathered on the stage.

There were many villagers and they were obstructing Zhou Xuan's view, so he didn't notice the one-eyed villager coming out from the ground at first.

In addition, before Mr. Dai was eaten, two long hands emerged from the ground, grabbed the corners of his mouth, and fixed him on the stage.

"I suspect... there's something strange going on underneath this empty space on the stage. We need to dig a little. If we really dig something out, we can..."

"As evidence to close our case."

"You learn very quickly...you can even answer questions quickly."

“……”Liu Tianen.

Liu Tianen was full of energy and called out to Zhou Xuan: "What are you waiting for, Brother Zhou, call everyone in your troupe and start digging together..."

"How much are you going to pay us?"

"It's all for justice in my heart, why do I need money?"

"We all have to uphold justice, but this underground weirdness may involve someone very deep. There are many people in our Zhou family and they are all gossipy. If we see something we shouldn't see and tell others about it..."

"No, no, I'll find someone myself." Liu Tianen and Qiao Yu went to get someone.

Ho~tui!

Zhou Xuanchong spat at Liu Tianen's back and said, "You want to take advantage of our Zhou family's labor force for free? No way!"

……

The laborers had strong and sturdy bodies. They carried their hoes high, facing the light. Zhou Xuan felt that they were like bronze sculptures.

They sweated and danced with their hoes up and down.
In a short while, the green grass in the open space had disappeared, leaving only a large hole half a meter deep.

"Did you find anything?"

Ice-cold soda can cool down the summer heat, but it can’t cool down the heat in Liu Tianen’s heart.

"Dig faster, dig faster." Liu Tianen raised his head and gulped down a whole bottle of soda. He was still out of breath and urged the bronze-like laborers like Zhou Baopi.

Zhou Xuan felt much more relaxed and was also looking at the open space, but apart from admiring the strong and muscular body lines of the laborers, the rest of the time he was observing Qiao Yu's nose.

"This nose is so damn ugly!"

Looking at ugly things can sometimes relieve fatigue and irritability. In his previous life, when he was in a bad mood, he would watch short videos of squeezing blackheads, picking ears, cleaning teeth, and brushing carpets, which would make him feel much better.

"Qiao Yu's nose is ugly, but it is very useful."

Liu Tianen squatted down, took another bottle of soda, opened the lid with a pop, took two gulps, and said, "He is a shady man from the northwest, called "Shake", and does underground business."

Underground trading?

"It's tomb robbing."

Seeing that Zhou Xuan was interested, Liu Tianen thought that since it was a rainy day and he had nothing else to do, he might as well tell some stories.

"There are many tomb-robbing gangs, divided into different categories, and there are also famous gangs in the south and north of the Yangtze River. The "Shake" have lived in the northwest for a long time. There are very few of them, only a few people in each generation. They rely on the two soft pieces of meat in front of their noses to rob tombs.
As long as the soft meat lightly touches the underground soil, it can distinguish the smell, age, and whether it is outer or inner sealed.

The tip of their nose is their eyes when they walk in the tomb. Just like earthworms, they are blind and rely on touch to find their way.

Therefore, those who know the business also call them sand worms.”

"Is it really that effective? Hey, Director Liu, I'll find you some super spicy peppers. Let Qiao Yu's soft flesh touch them and see if it will swell."

Liu Tianen thought about that scene and narrowed his eyes: "I kind of want to fire the person who was torturing me in the police station and let you take his place..."

"There is a way, there is a way."

Qiao Yu, who had been lying in the pit and sniffing, suddenly looked up and shouted.

Liu Tianen threw away the soda bottle and ran towards the pit, and Zhou Xuan followed slowly.

"What do you smell, kid?"

"Corpse Qi... Buddha Qi... evil Qi!" Qiao Yu was so excited that he was out of breath and his words were unclear.

Liu Tianen got angry after hearing this and slapped Qiao Yu, causing him to spin around twice: "Wake up, is it corpse qi or Buddha qi?"

Qiao Yu felt very aggrieved and cried, "Director Liu, I mean, there is corpse qi, Buddha qi, and evil qi!"

(End of this chapter)